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Science317(2007),519–523; DOI10.1126/science.1139518. Original study compares979domestic/wild cats with mitochondrial and nuclear markers. Historical result described with its sampling scope, not as a settled date/location for the entire domestication process. Full text pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5612713/ .